Ten Lessons For a Post-Pandemic World
CNN host Fareed Zakaria’s 2008 book The Post-American World was an audacious performance, an often brilliant imagining of a radically changed international picture, one in which the United States, having laid the groundwork and exported the tools for less powerful or less wealthy nations to excel, then falls victim to its own involuntary largesse and is surpassed by its former rivals. Ten years ago, it seemed like a daring leap of intuition - the kind of leap for which this author is rightfully esteemed, but even so, a stretch.
It may seem that our world is terribly fragile. It is not. Another way to read human history is to recognize just how tough we are. We have gone through extraordinary change at breathtaking pace. We have seen ice ages and plagues, world wars and revolutions, and yet we have survived and flourished.
CNN host Fareed Zakaria’s 2008 book The Post-American World was an audacious performance, an often brilliant imagining of a radically changed international picture, one in which the United States, having laid the groundwork and exported the tools for less powerful or less wealthy nations to excel, then falls victim to its own involuntary largesse and is surpassed by its former rivals. Ten years ago, it seemed like a daring leap of intuition - the kind of leap for which this author is rightfully esteemed, but even so, a stretch.
It may seem that our world is terribly fragile. It is not. Another way to read human history is to recognize just how tough we are. We have gone through extraordinary change at breathtaking pace. We have seen ice ages and plagues, world wars and revolutions, and yet we have survived and flourished.